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feat(mux): a TS clock step restarts the import under a new epoch - #7144
moq-dev/moq#7102: a contribution switches between two encoders whose clocks start ~4 h 40 m apart, without discontinuity_indicator. moq import ts/srt exits on the step back (moq-dev/moq#4543's rule), and every moq export ts exited on the step forward, reading it as drift (until moq-dev/moq#7165 made the export re-acquire). Both legs of a 1+1 pair fail together.
Approach
Two encoders are two broadcasts, as decided in the quest.
Detection (moq-mux, new ts/step.rs): before routing each packet, ts::Import checks the PCR and each timed PID's DTS (PTS without one) against its last, with the modular step ts/health.rs already used for TR 101 290 2.3b (now health::Delta). A step is the PCR and every stream stepping the same way, unflagged: back by any amount short of the 33-bit wrap, or forward by more than 10 s (ffmpeg's dts_delta_threshold). After a flagged PCR break, the streams stepping back is a rewind; stepping forward still splices with break markers, as today.
While a step is judged, the input from it is held unpublished in the demuxer's scratch. It is released once every stream that kept TR 101 290's 0.7 s PTS cadence has spoken, 0.7 s of the new clock has passed, or the staging byte budget is reached. A clock stepping alone (a corrupt PCR, one stream jumping) is refuted and routes as before: an unflagged step needs at least one stream to step with the PCR. PES headers split across packets are reassembled for this, under the import's continuity rules (a retransmitted fragment is skipped, a gap drops the partial header).
On a confirmed step the import returns ts::Restart { step, remainder }: why, and the input from the step on.
Supervisors, not moq-mux: moq import ts (moq-cli/src/publish.rs) and moq import srt (moq-srtPublisher) finish the old instance, then publish the remainder on the same path under a fresh epoch. The SRT connection, and the --report/--echo-path catalog sections, carry over. decode in publish.rs is restructured around an Instance so the report task can be rebuilt.
Docs: doc/bin/cli.md describes the restart and the upstream fix (time-locked encoders, or a switch that flags the break); doc/lib/rs/moq-mux.md names ts::Restart.
Impact
moq-mux: new ts::Restart (error: step, remainder) and ts::Step (Rewind { by, flagged }, Leap { by }). ts::Import::decode now returns Restart for a whole-multiplex rewind, flagged or not, where it used to return TimestampRewind or drop rewound frames as unplaceable. It also returns Restart for an unflagged forward step over 10 s, which it used to publish across the gap. A library caller that does not handle it, such as moq-ffi's container import, ends there.
moq-srt: Publisher republishes at a step. No API change.
moq-cli: moq import ts and moq import srt republish instead of exiting.
Wire: none.
Choices made without asking
Unflagged detection needs a PCR history. Input with no PCR (only synthetic tests here) keeps the old refusal.
A flagged PCR break is held until the cadenced streams speak, at most 0.7 s of program clock, to tell a flagged rewind from a splice. A flagged forward splice now publishes up to one PES interval later.
A cadenced stream still silent 0.7 s into the new clock is not waited for: the PCR and the streams that spoke decide. Otherwise a source dropping a PID at the switch would stall the broadcast for the whole byte budget.
The old instance finishes and is withdrawn before the new one announces. The CLI announces once the new catalog goes out (~2 s mux-rate hold, which restart-catalog removes); moq-srt announces at once, as it does per connection.
--program all and --passthrough are unchanged and still end at a rewind (documented).
A whole-multiplex step no longer reaches either instance's 2.3b pcr_discontinuity_indicator_error; the restart is logged as a warning with its step and new epoch. The grading test now steps the PCR alone.
Tests
ts/step_test.rs: a real capture replayed on a clock 16,844.5 s back, then forward, fed whole, in 7-packet payloads and in unaligned pieces. Each restarts at the switch with the remainder starting at the second pass's first timestamp, and the remainder imports cleanly. A 9 s gap or two seconds of lost packets do not restart. A PCR stepping alone, or the audio left on the old timeline, do not restart. Audio missing after the switch is not waited for.
ts/step.rs unit tests: a PCR stepping with no stream to corroborate it does not restart; a stream whose PES headers span packets steps with the clock; a retransmitted header fragment does not read as a stream stepping with a lone PCR glitch.
Existing tests whose stimulus is now a restart assert Restart (flagged backward restart, looping file wrap).
moq-srt: the stepped clip ingested over one connection republishes, and an egress with --stitch and --follow exports both programs (163 frames each). It does not assert per-PID discontinuity flags, which quest/m0/nightly/stitch-discontinuity.md covers.
moq-cli: a stdin import with a flagged rewind announces a second epoch whose catalog keeps the echo section.
just ci passes locally.
Alternatives
Rejected in the quest: inferring the flag forward (a splice across two sources), a catalog timeline generation, and an in-process import.restart(broadcast) in moq-mux. Considered here: restarting on the existing TimestampRewind error with the next chunk. That loses up to a 64 KB stdin chunk, publishes rewound non-keyframes into the old group first, and misses forward steps.
Follow-ups
--program all: restart one program of a multiplex. ts::Programs owns those broadcasts, so this would put a restart in moq-mux; it needs a maintainer call.
--passthrough: the raw lane ends on PcrRewind/PcrRestart; a CLI supervisor could republish it too, but its errors carry no remainder.
Bindings: moq-c and moq-ffi container imports end with ts::Restart and leave republishing to the broadcast owner (maintainer decision). Exposing the remainder through them waits for a consumer.
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P2 — Require a media timestamp to corroborate a PCR-only step (rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/step.rs:403-405). On a PCR-triggered candidate, the expected PID set can be empty: before any timed PES has been observed, or after all observed streams have been silent beyond the 0.7 s cadence window. Reading the stepped PCR then clears self.pcr, and this branch calls verdict(end, true) without hearing a single media timestamp. A corrupt PCR alone consequently restarts/withdraws the broadcast, contrary to the intended whole-multiplex test; it can do so before a following unchanged PES would refute it. Require actual media corroboration before immediate confirmation (as the timeout path already does), with a regression for PCR-only steps when no timed PID is currently cadenced.
Direction: a typed restart carrying the unread input, with fresh-epoch supervision outside moq-mux, respects instance identity and avoids dropping the current input chunk. Preserving the SRT connection and rebuilding report/echo sections are appropriate. The bounded lookahead is justified, but an empty expected set must not stand in for agreement.
Verification: static review of detection, importer hold/remainder handling, CLI/SRT supervisor lifecycle and added tests, including an independent detector review. No tests, capture replay or live SRT checks run.
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rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/import.rs
rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/mod.rs
rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/step.rs
rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/step_test.rs
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Walkthrough
The MPEG-TS importer detects confirmed clock steps and returns a restart result with the unread input. CLI stdin imports and single-program SRT imports finish the current broadcast and republish the remaining input under a new epoch. The SRT path continues on the same connection. Multi-program SRT imports retain their existing path. The changes also update CLI and library documentation, remove the step-restart design document and its links, and add detection and republishing tests.
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Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 93a14
Library and C API callers that import MPEG-TS through the generic container path can now receive an error on a large unflagged forward clock step. Previously the import continued. The CLI and single-program SRT imports republish correctly. Handle the restart in the C API path, or gate the new detection there, before merging.
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Issue #7102 is open and directly linked. It lists options, not formal acceptance criteria. The PR implements option 4, the supervisor fallback. moq import ts (rs/moq-cli/src/publish.rs) and `moq i…
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Issue #7102 is open and directly linked. It lists options, not formal acceptance criteria. The PR implements option 4, the supervisor fallback. moq import ts (rs/moq-cli/src/publish.rs) and moq import srt (rs/moq-srt/src/ts.rs) finish the old instance and republish the remainder under a new epoch. Detection is in rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/step.rs. It requires PCR and timed PIDs to step together. A backward step returns Step::Rewind. An unflagged forward step over 10 s (LEAP) returns Step::Leap. Both return ts::Restart with the remainder. A flagged forward break still splices. The lone-PCR case routes as before, which is the single-clock refutation the issue's rule needs. The test evidence (step_test.rs, the moq-srt republish test, and the --stitch --follow egress check) comes from the PR description and summary. I did not re-run it. Options 1 (export-side tolerance) and 3 (in-broadcast break marking) are not implemented. The issue offers them as alternatives, so their absence does not fail the PR. Known limits, stated by the PR and not unmet requirements of the single-program path: --program all and --passthrough still end at a rewind, and a subscriber still loses about 2.8 s until restart-catalog lands.
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Addressed the P2 in 70553b1. A PCR-triggered step now confirms only once a stream has stepped with it; with no cadenced stream, it waits up to 0.7 s of the new clock for one and otherwise routes the input as before. Regression: step::tests::a_clock_alone_does_not_restart. The same commit makes split PES headers readable, so a stream whose headers span packets counts as corroboration too (the Codex thread).
The prior P2 empty-expected-set finding is fixed by requiring media corroboration. Normal fragmented headers now participate, addressing the independent finding, but the new reassembly has a separate correctness gap:
P2 — Apply TS continuity rules before concatenating header fragments (rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/step.rs:218-231). Headers appends every continuation, including a legal duplicate that the real demux ignores. For example, after PTS 90000, a valid PTS 93600 has bytes 21 00 05 db 41: split after the first timestamp byte, then carry 00 05 in a continuation and duplicate that packet. The detector prematurely parses 21 00 05 00 05 as PTS 65538, falsely observing a rewind; with an isolated backward PCR it now confirms a broadcast restart despite continuously advancing media. Track continuity in both routed and lookahead header state, skip duplicate payloads, and discard incomplete headers on gaps/corruption. Add a duplicate-intermediate-fragment regression with an unchanged media timeline.
Direction: bounded header reassembly is the right extension, but its acceptance rules must match the importer rather than creating a second, more permissive timestamp parser.
Verification: static review of this single-commit delta and the demux/import paths, including independent analysis of fragment handling. No tests, replay or live SRT checks run.
Maintainer decision: the C and FFI container imports end with ts::Restart and leave republishing to the broadcast owner; they don't republish internally.
The step detector appended every continuation packet to a header begun
on its PID, including a retransmission the import ignores, so a
duplicated fragment could read as a stream stepping back and confirm a
lone PCR glitch as a restart. Each timed PID now keeps a Continuity:
a duplicate is skipped, and a gap, a corrupt or malformed packet, or a
scrambled payload drops the header begun.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addressed the P2 on header fragments in 2c779f2. Each timed PID in the step detector now keeps the import's own Continuity alongside its partial header, so a retransmitted packet is skipped as the import skips it, and a counter gap, a corrupt or malformed packet, or a scrambled payload drops the partial header. This holds both for the routed state and the lookahead's copy. Regression: step::tests::a_repeated_header_fragment_does_not_step, the reviewer's case: PTS 93,600 split after its first byte and the next two, with the middle packet repeated and one PCR stepping back alone. It fails without the fix and passes with it.
The same push merges main, which deletes the finished export-reacquire quest and drops step-back's link to this one, and moves a CLI test to request after moq-dev/moq#7172. just ci passes.
The prior duplicate-fragment finding is fixed: routed and lookahead headers now use Continuity, with a targeted retransmission regression. The earlier media-corroboration fix remains intact. One new regression remains:
P2 — Clear the previous partial header on a new PES start (rs/moq-mux/src/container/ts/step.rs:227–249). The PUSI branch parses the new payload but leaves chain.begun untouched when that header is complete or invalid. If a truncated PES header is followed by a complete fresh PUSI with contiguous counters, the next continuation therefore appends the new PES's body to the abandoned header. The actual importer explicitly removes the old header at every PUSI (import.rs:825–830). For example, retain the first nine bytes of a PTS-bearing header, then accept a complete new PUSI at PTS 93600; a subsequent body beginning 21 00 05 00 05 is incorrectly read as PTS 65538. A lone backward PCR between that new PUSI and its continuation then gets false media corroboration and restarts the broadcast. Clear/take begun before processing any new PUSI and add a truncated-header → complete-new-PUSI → continuation regression.
Direction: sharing the importer's continuity classifier is the right simplification; the header-start reset must match it too. Review focused on the fix and CLI test adaptation after separating the merge of current main from the PR-specific delta.
Verification: static code and test review, including independent validation of the new reset issue. No tests, capture replay or live SRT checks run.
The continuity rewrite kept a cut-short header across a new PES start,
so the next PES's body could complete it with a false timestamp. Each
packet now takes the begun header first, as the import does.
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Fixed the P2 on a PES start in d14adba. My continuity rewrite had regressed this: a PUSI parsed its own payload but left the cut-short header in place. Each packet now takes the begun header before anything else, as the import does. Regression: step::tests::a_pes_start_abandons_the_header_begun follows the reviewer's sequence: a 9-byte header, then a whole PES at PTS 93,600, a lone backward PCR, and a body reading 21 00 05 00 05. It fails without the fix and passes with it. just ci passes.
The prior P2 stale-header finding is fixed: taking chain.begun before choosing the PUSI/continuation branch discards an abandoned header on every fresh start, including complete and invalid headers, while preserving ordinary continuation assembly. The new regression covers the reported false-PCR-corroboration sequence. The earlier duplicate-fragment and media-corroboration fixes remain intact.
No new actionable bugs found in this single-file delta. Direction: this is a small, appropriate alignment with the importer's header lifecycle, without another parser or special-case workaround.
Verification: static comparison against the last reviewed head and inspection of the reset path and regression test only. I did not run tests, capture replay or live SRT checks; reported CI results were not independently verified.
Merged main. Both quest conflicts resolved as deletions: export-reacquire finished in moq-dev/moq#7165, and this PR finishes step-restart. step-back's links to step-restart now point at this PR. A CLI test moved to request after moq-dev/moq#7172.
Two review findings on the step detector's split-header reassembly are fixed, each with a regression that fails without the fix. A retransmitted fragment is skipped, using the import's own Continuity. A PES start drops a cut-short header.
Bindings: per the maintainer decision, moq-c and moq-ffi end with ts::Restart and leave republishing to the broadcast owner.
The current head has a clean automated review (review) and a Codex thumbs up. just ci passes locally, and quest check against the latest main passes.
Re-landing after the merge queue dropped this on merge_conflict.
Merged main into the branch (7b0a963). The only conflict was modify/delete on quest/m1/ts-reliability/step-restart.md: main retitled one Related link in it (via fix(net): a mid-stream priority change reaches the publisher #7145), and this PR deletes the quest, so the deletion stands. No remaining links to it.
just ci origin/main passes locally, and quest check --base origin/main passes.
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Finishes quest/m1/ts-reliability/step-restart.md (deleted here, with its links).
Problem
moq-dev/moq#7102: a contribution switches between two encoders whose clocks start ~4 h 40 m apart, without
discontinuity_indicator.moq import ts/srtexits on the step back (moq-dev/moq#4543's rule), and everymoq export tsexited on the step forward, reading it as drift (until moq-dev/moq#7165 made the export re-acquire). Both legs of a 1+1 pair fail together.Approach
Two encoders are two broadcasts, as decided in the quest.
moq-mux, newts/step.rs): before routing each packet,ts::Importchecks the PCR and each timed PID's DTS (PTS without one) against its last, with the modular stepts/health.rsalready used for TR 101 290 2.3b (nowhealth::Delta). A step is the PCR and every stream stepping the same way, unflagged: back by any amount short of the 33-bit wrap, or forward by more than 10 s (ffmpeg'sdts_delta_threshold). After a flagged PCR break, the streams stepping back is a rewind; stepping forward still splices with break markers, as today.ts::Restart { step, remainder }: why, and the input from the step on.moq import ts(moq-cli/src/publish.rs) andmoq import srt(moq-srtPublisher) finish the old instance, then publish the remainder on the same path under a fresh epoch. The SRT connection, and the--report/--echo-pathcatalog sections, carry over.decodeinpublish.rsis restructured around anInstanceso the report task can be rebuilt.doc/bin/cli.mddescribes the restart and the upstream fix (time-locked encoders, or a switch that flags the break);doc/lib/rs/moq-mux.mdnamests::Restart.Impact
moq-mux: newts::Restart(error:step,remainder) andts::Step(Rewind { by, flagged },Leap { by }).ts::Import::decodenow returnsRestartfor a whole-multiplex rewind, flagged or not, where it used to returnTimestampRewindor drop rewound frames as unplaceable. It also returnsRestartfor an unflagged forward step over 10 s, which it used to publish across the gap. A library caller that does not handle it, such asmoq-ffi's container import, ends there.moq-srt:Publisherrepublishes at a step. No API change.moq-cli:moq import tsandmoq import srtrepublish instead of exiting.Choices made without asking
moq-srtannounces at once, as it does per connection.--program alland--passthroughare unchanged and still end at a rewind (documented).pcr_discontinuity_indicator_error; the restart is logged as a warning with its step and new epoch. The grading test now steps the PCR alone.Tests
ts/step_test.rs: a real capture replayed on a clock 16,844.5 s back, then forward, fed whole, in 7-packet payloads and in unaligned pieces. Each restarts at the switch with the remainder starting at the second pass's first timestamp, and the remainder imports cleanly. A 9 s gap or two seconds of lost packets do not restart. A PCR stepping alone, or the audio left on the old timeline, do not restart. Audio missing after the switch is not waited for.ts/step.rsunit tests: a PCR stepping with no stream to corroborate it does not restart; a stream whose PES headers span packets steps with the clock; a retransmitted header fragment does not read as a stream stepping with a lone PCR glitch.Restart(flagged backward restart, looping file wrap).moq-srt: the stepped clip ingested over one connection republishes, and an egress with--stitchand--followexports both programs (163 frames each). It does not assert per-PID discontinuity flags, which quest/m0/nightly/stitch-discontinuity.md covers.moq-cli: a stdin import with a flagged rewind announces a second epoch whose catalog keeps the echo section.just cipasses locally.Alternatives
Rejected in the quest: inferring the flag forward (a splice across two sources), a catalog timeline generation, and an in-process
import.restart(broadcast)in moq-mux. Considered here: restarting on the existingTimestampRewinderror with the next chunk. That loses up to a 64 KB stdin chunk, publishes rewound non-keyframes into the old group first, and misses forward steps.Follow-ups
--program all: restart one program of a multiplex.ts::Programsowns those broadcasts, so this would put a restart in moq-mux; it needs a maintainer call.--passthrough: the raw lane ends onPcrRewind/PcrRestart; a CLI supervisor could republish it too, but its errors carry no remainder.moq-candmoq-fficontainer imports end withts::Restartand leave republishing to the broadcast owner (maintainer decision). Exposing the remainder through them waits for a consumer.Closes #7102
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